>Jim Gordon: What about escalation?>Batman: Escalation?>Jim Gordon: We start carrying semi-automatics, they buy automatics. We start wearing Kevlar, they buy armor piercing rounds.>Batman: Rounds?Now how would that possibly make any sense unless someone was funding both the criminals and the cops at the same rate? You don't magically get better equipment just because the other guy does.
>>151327931The mob owned the banks didn't they?
>>151327931Tax payers pay the cops and also the criminals, because they like sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll.
>>151327931A lot of the weapons came in from over seas in that movie.
>>151328044The criminals also pay the civilians because it works.
>>151327931See The LA Shootout
>>151327931>Rounds?>Bullets.>Bullets?
>>151327931>Now how would that possibly make any sense unless someone was funding both the criminals and the cops at the same rate?Doesn't matter. The whole thing was about Supervillains anyway. Especially when they ended the thing on the Joker. Supervillains were the "escalation".
>>151328198Bendis?
>>151327931>You don't magically get better equipment just because the other guy does.No but it's a lot easier to make your case at city budget meetings
>>151328275Why would supervillains appear just because heroes do? Why wouldn't they have already been there before?
>>151328316Yes. The writer. Bendis.
>>151328377Dark Knight did a decent job of covering this. Though Joker was cartoonishly evil, the reality would be hiring people who were more into committing crimes than making money. Think the guy who is paid to burn a building down 'correctly' (ie make it look like an accident for insurance money) vs the guy who just likes burning shit.The fear is if you squeeze predictable criminals they start becoming unpredictable and desperate.
>>151328377In the Nolanverse Ra's and Scarecrow were there before Batman even showed up.Escalation is just how guys like Gordon see it from ignorance, it's like if you fumigate a place and all the pests come scurrying out. Someone who sees it thinks it happened recently when it was always building up unseen.
>>151327931>You don't magically get better equipment just because the other guy does.You actually do. Police officers switched from revolvers to 9mm in NYC after semi-autos flooded streets. The push back wasn't buying new guns, it was the officers themselves being worried about a semi-auto jamming in the middle of a gunfight as opposed to a revolver.
>>151328423It doesn't help that the NYPD mandates ridiculously heavy trigger pulls for their 9mms. It's why they can't shoot for shit.
>>151327931>>151328275It's called bad and lazy plotting, especially with a director, like Nolan, who waste endless hours writing (and rewriting, with his brother, wife or by himself) shit he care a lot about, even if it still makes no sense: Interstellar, Momento, Tenet, etc. but could give two fucks about your funny books or Batman.
>>151329633I think he must have spent a fuckload of time writing the Batman trilogy too considering every time a character speaks a fucking essay comes out of their mouth
>>151328198>You remind me of a man.>What man?>The man with the power.>What power?>The power of voodoo.>Hoodoo?>You do.>Do what?>Remind me of the man.
>>151327931wow and I was always told american anons understood gun
>>151327931>You don't magically get better equipment just because the other guy doesYou do know that gun and war equipment salespeople are some of the most pushy bloodhounds in the world, right? If there's armed conflict, they'll find you and sell their shit.
>>151330128That's what it's all about: making the world a worse place to benefit yourself.
>>151329655I should go back and watch Scooby Doo
